The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.
The Official Report search offers lots of different ways to find the information you’re looking for. The search is used as a professional tool by researchers and third-party organisations. It is also used by members of the public who may have less parliamentary awareness. This means it needs to provide the ability to run complex searches, and the ability to browse reports or perform a simple keyword search.
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
Depending on the kind of search you want to do, one of these views will be the best option. The default view is to show the report for each meeting of Parliament or a committee. For a simple keyword search, the results will be shown by item of business.
When you choose to search by a particular MSP, the results returned will show each spoken contribution in Parliament or a committee, ordered by date with the most recent contributions first. This will usually return a lot of results, but you can refine your search by keyword, date and/or by meeting (committee or Chamber business).
We’ve chosen to display the entirety of each MSP’s contribution in the search results. This is intended to reduce the number of times that users need to click into an actual report to get the information that they’re looking for, but in some cases it can lead to very short contributions (“Yes.”) or very long ones (Ministerial statements, for example.) We’ll keep this under review and get feedback from users on whether this approach best meets their needs.
There are two types of keyword search:
If you select an MSP’s name from the dropdown menu, and add a phrase in quotation marks to the keyword field, then the search will return only examples of when the MSP said those exact words. You can further refine this search by adding a date range or selecting a particular committee or Meeting of the Parliament.
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
There are two ways of searching by date.
You can either use the Start date and End date options to run a search across a particular date range. For example, you may know that a particular subject was discussed at some point in the last few weeks and choose a date range to reflect that.
Alternatively, you can use one of the pre-defined date ranges under “Select a time period”. These are:
If you search by an individual session, the list of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees will automatically update to show only the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees will update to show the information that was current at that time.
All Official Reports of meetings in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
Thank you all for everything that you have told us this morning. As usual, we could go on for a lot longer, but we must break now. We will suspend the session until 11.15, when we have more evidence to take on another issue.
11:04 Meeting suspended.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
We move to questions from Sue Webber on medical issues arising from mesh surgery.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
Thank you. Evelyn—you may ask a quick question.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
Carol Mochan will now discuss health inequalities.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
Is there anyone you would like to pose that question to first? There is a lot in there.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
That is great to hear, including that point about having no wrong door; it takes an awful lot for somebody to go through a door in the first place.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
I remind our witnesses that if they want to come in on anything, they can use the chat box. I see that Jacquie Pepper wants to come in.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
I will go to Kirsty-Louise Hunt and then back to Evelyn Tweed for a quick question.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
Thank you. Obviously, it has been a broad session. What can we do as a committee to drill down with regard to children and young people’s health outcomes? Where can we add value?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
Gillian Martin
I appreciate that it is a very wide question. Colleagues are ready to dig into the detail. Our inquiry is on a big theme, but we have a short timescale. I hope that it will be a springboard for some more focused work and that we will invite you back when we do that.